A major OS upgrade was pushed to Verizon's Blackberry Storm tonight. The phone can be upgraded over the network. The push alert came via the integrated data stream. I used the Blackberry Desktop Manager instead, which syncs the phone via the USB cord and backs up all apps and user data such as email, old txt messages, photos/video and restores it to the upgrade.
The backup, download and restore took about 30 minutes without a hitch. This time will vary with the amount of user data on your phone. Several applications were upgraded with this update. You can have an option with both the network or desktop upgrade to choose the apps and some aspects of the operating system you wish to upgrade or remove. I opted to remove Asian language support.
Only two options were available for Blackberry's Facebook App, remove or downgrade.. I have been given the option to downgrade since a day after I upgraded. I have never had any issues with the upgrade in question.
At first glance there is an improvement in the speed of the camera and video and the black mask at the bottom of the viewfinder has been replaced with a semi-transparent one.
The universal select/copy/paste has been enhanced to allow a more precise control of the selected content.
A full QWERTY option has been added to portrait mode.
The return key have become a green "go" button on the keyboard when using the Blackberry browser.
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